Where: Antarctica (62.2° S, 59.0° W: paleocoordinates 60.1° S, 69.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Half Three Point Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, tuffaceous, sandy sandstone and lithified, tuffaceous, muddy mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original carbon, original sporopollenin, original cellulose, replaced with other
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,
• All type and figured material is housed in the Museum of Paleontology, Antarctic Section, Vale do Rio dos Sinos University (UNISINOS).
Primary reference: T. L. Dutra and D. J. Batten. 2000. Upper Cretaceous floras of King George Island, West Antarctica, and their palaeoenvironmental and phytogeographic implications. Cretaceous Research (21)181-209 [C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150273: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Patricio Santamarina on 05.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
cf. Culcita "sp." Presl 1836 sea star | |
Angiospermae | |
Sterculia washburnii Berry 1928 tropical chestnut | |
aff. Anacardites pichileufensis Berry 1938 cashew | |
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Ficophyllum palustris Cantrill 1996 mulberry
Ficophyllum skuaensis Dutra and Batten 2000 mulberry | |
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Magnoliopsida | |
Dicotylophyllum elegans Li 1994 | |
Podocarpus "sp." L'Heritier and Persoon 1807 podocarp | |
Phyllites | |
Phyllites "sp. 1" Brongniart 1822
Phyllites "sp. 2" Brongniart 1822 similar to Dicotylophyllum latitrilobatum Zastawniak, in Birkenmajer & Zastawniak, 1989b, and Sterculia washburnii Berry, 1928 in Dutra, 1997b
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Polypodiopsida | |
? Osmunda "sp." Linnaeus 1753 similar to ‘Alsophila’ or Polypodium sp. in Czajkowski & Rösler, 1986,
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Sterculiaephyllum australis | |
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